About Jess
Jess Quessenberry greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. Jess is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - based in California with eight years of clinical experience. They keep sessions relaxed and use plain language so parents can talk without feeling judged.
Jess focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, work stress, grief, and relationship pain. They also help people facing trauma, questions about gender and sexual identity, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and attachment.
How Jess works
Sessions are nonjudgmental and often include gentle humor to ease difficult conversations. In sessions Jess listens first and helps clients name what feels most urgent. They use a mix of problem-solving tools and longer-term reflection to help people cope and grow.
Practical steps and small experiments between sessions are common parts of the work. Jess draws on client-centered therapy to keep the person’s goals central. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Mindfulness and narrative methods are added to help process emotions and rewrite painful stories. Jess is non-binary and presents as transfemme she/they. They mention lived experience with trauma, autism, and ADHD, which informs their understanding of sensory and processing differences.
People can expect a warm, down-to-earth clinician who emphasizes collaboration and real-world plans.
Jess lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Jess works with
The areas below are the ones Jess selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches work online with Jess
Client-centered therapy places the client's goals and experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens closely, reflects back what matters most, and helps shape goals that feel useful and realistic for daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with practical alternatives. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jess treats approach choice as a collaboration and will match strategies to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That could mean trying CBT tools for a time, then adding narrative or mindfulness practices to process deeper feelings, or centering sessions around what the client finds most helpful in the moment.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or for shorter, focused work. These options aim to make regular care easier to fit into real life.
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